Response of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) and peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saund.) to some food attractants

Sameh Moustafa

doi:10.21608/eajbsa.2009.15433

Abstract

The mean captured adults of the Mediterranean fruit fly (MFF), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) per trap per day (CTD) in the traps containing Glan, Pro-lure 2%, Agrisense, Bioprox, Pro-lure 5%, Amadene, Buminal, Norlan and Agrinal were 11.04, 10.55, 10.22, 7.62, 6.56, 3.98, 3.16, 2.98 and 1.89, respectively. While, the effectiveness of the tested food attractants against the peach fruit fly (PFF), Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) adults comes in descending order as follows: Gla > Pro-lure 5 > Pro-lure 2% > Bioprox > Agrisense > Agrinal > Buminal > Norlan and Amadene; however, the CTDs of these preparations were 0.60, 0.60, 0.51, 0.49, 0.42, 0.22, 0.15, 0.13 and 0.13, respectively. The present results showed that, adding the pesticide, malathion to the food attractant preparations was obviously reduced the attractiveness of the lures to both MFF and PFF adults. All of the tested preparations were attracted MFF and PFF females with a significantly high numbers in comparison to males. Regression analysis illustrated that the tested food attractants exhibited high stability by the time passed, where the passed time had not any significant effect on the potentiality of the tested preparations.

Highlights

The peach fruit fly (PFF), Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) and Mediterranean fruit fly (MFF), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) are the most dominant and serious pests on fruit orchards in the world
The efficacy of the above food attractants preparations was tested against the adult flies of the peach fruit fly (PFF), Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) and Mediterranean fruit fly (MFF), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) as follows: 1. Using all of these attractants with 5% concentration, Pro-Lure was used with 2%
Efficacy of the tested food attractants: 1. C. capitata adults: As shown in the figure (1), the obtained data indicated that MFF adults showed different degrees of preference to the different tested food attractants

Summary

Introduction

The peach fruit fly (PFF), Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) and Mediterranean fruit fly (MFF), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) are the most dominant and serious pests on fruit orchards in the world. They severely attack of many fruit species such as; guava, peach, mango, citrus, apricot, fig and apple, in addition to some vegetables such as tomato, pepper and egg-plants as secondary hosts (Kapoor & Agarwal, 1982; White & Elson-Harris, 1992; El-Minshawy et al, 1999; Hashem et al, 2004 and Ghanim, 2009). Norlan was one of the most effective attractants for PFF adults (Ghanim, 2009)

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